Fuck everyone who uses "unalive" with zero sense of irony. Fucking socmed algorithm brain poisoning.
Say "kill". Say "murder". Say "suicide". Say "rape". Say "pedophile". Say what you mean. If people need to not see or hear those words they'll use a filter.
(Or if you're on a platform where you feel like you're forced to elide a word, make it obvious you know you're being censored and don't use stupid euphemisms like it's a totally normal thing to do.)
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Per Ploug Krogslund, who is currently senior director of developer programs at Docker, and who previously had a number of experiences at the intersection of open source and business. He founded and ran an open source company, Umbraco, for...
Replacing Twitter is not a task for a few—it is a barn raising that the entire social community must undertake together. Here’s my tips for joining this change.
Josh Goldberg joins Nick & Chris to discuss the latest updates from ESLint, typescript-eslint & the new flat config format. They also discuss creating reusable configs & project generators before pivoting to talk about a new conference focused on developer tooling. Finally, Chris & Josh talk about the past, present & f...
This week on the The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Ashraf Samhouri, the CEO and co-founder of Activepieces. Activepieces didn’t start as an open source company — and we started out the conversation by talking about why it was important to take an open source route because Activepieces is...
In this episode, Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and an AWS engineer, joins us to discuss the life of an open source maintainer and the experiences surrounding the launch of the Valkey project. We cover the pivotal moments that led to the creation of Valkey, a Redis fork, following the Redis license change. Madeline also shares insights on the challenges and pressures of being a maintainer, strategies to manage burnout, and the significance of creating a community-driven, open source project. The episode highlights the technical advancements and future directions for Valkey, working to leverage modern hardware, manage large clusters, and expand the extension ecosystem.
00:00 Introduction
00:48 Redis License Change and Birth of Valkey
06:17 Maintainer Life and Burnout
14:54 Forking a Repository: When and Why
19:30 Community-Driven Open Source Projects
21:32 Future of Valkey and Closing Remarks
Guest:
Madelyn Olson is a co-creator and maintainer of Valkey, a high-performance key-value datastore, and Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She focuses on building secure and highly reliable features, with a passion in working with open-source communities.
In this episode, we chat with Luis Villa, co-founder of Tidelift, about everything from supporting open source maintainers to coding with AI. Luis, a former programmer turned attorney, shares stories from his early days of discovering Linux, to his contributions to various projects and organizations including Mozilla and Wikipedia. We discussed the critical importance of open source software, the challenges faced by maintainers, including burnout, and how Tidelift works toward compensating maintainers. We also explore broader themes about the sustainability of open source projects, the impact of AI on code generation and legal concerns, and the need for a more structured and community-driven approach to long-term project maintenance.
00:00 Introduction03:20 Challenges in Open Source Sustainability07:43 Tidelift's Role in Supporting Maintainers14:18 The Future of Open Source and AI32:44 Optimism and Human Element in Open Source35:38 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Guest:
Luis Villa is co-founder and general counsel at Tidelift. Previously he was a top open source lawyer advising clients, from Fortune 50 companies to leading startups, on product development, open source licensing, and other matters.
Luis is also an experienced open source community leader with organizations like the Wikimedia Foundation, where he served as deputy general counsel and then led the Foundation’s community engagement team. Before the Wikimedia Foundation, he was with Greenberg Traurig, where he counseled clients such as Google on open source licenses and technology transactions, and Mozilla, where he led the revision of the Mozilla Public License.
He has served on the boards at the Open Source Initiative and the GNOME Foundation, and been an invited expert on the Patents and Standards Interest Group of the World Wide Web Consortium and the Legal Working Group of OpenStreetMap.
Recent speaking engagements include RedMonk’s Monki Gras developer event, FOSDEM, and as a faculty member at the Practicing Law Institute’s Open Source Software programs.
Luis holds a JD from Columbia Law School and studied political science and computer science at Duke University.
Kris, Angelica & Johnny react to the recently announced Go team changes, discuss the finding that 80% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow are unhappy & disagree about the concept of tech debt (but agree that something's gotta give).
What's in the SOSS? features the sharpest minds in security as they dig into the challenges and opportunities that create a recipe for success in making software more secure. Get a taste of all the ingredients that make up secure open source ...
Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol' question: which database should you use? Answering that isn't always easy, which means it's time to play the "It Depends" jingle & weigh (some of) the options.
Now #BridgyFed has support for federating BlueSky, hopefuly y'all should be able to follow www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy to get my posts straight from the source 👀
OK! I *think* I've finished.
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Hey you! Yes! *YOU!*
Come to #OggCamp in Manchester - October 12-13.
It's a delightfully nerdy open source / open culture conference.
Meet new friends, give new talks, learn new things.
Tickets available now - https://oggcamp.org/
For Patreon, Swag, past episodes, and more, visit 🔗 https://cupogo.dev/!🏛️ Go 1.22.6 & 1.21.13 released 🕵️ CVE-2024-24790 explained (and scored on Synk)🧪 Likely accept: add Context method to testing.T🧑💻 StackOverflow 2024 developer survey results
We're talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and sustainability. In addition to the usual laughs and unpopular opinions, this week's episode includes a Changelog++ se...
Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces.
and talk about a presentation Josh recently gave that was supposed to be about how open source works. The talk was the wrong topic for a security crowd, but there's a lot of interesting details in the questions and comments that emerged. It's clear a lot of security people don't really care about the fine details about what open source is, their primary goal is to help keep development secure. Show Notes
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every now and then i feel like im taking crazy pills because i remember when aaron swartz killed himself because he was going to go to jail forever because he scraped JSTOR,
and eleven years later your manager tells you “sshhhh it’s fine just scrape all of it don’t worry the CEO said it’s fine”
The problem with being a programmer with ADHD is that it's often more fun to build a chainsaw from scratch than it is to chop down a tree by hand with an axe.
An important lesson is that you can never easily tell who is “vulnerable” to COVID. Olympic champions are at risk from COVID. In different ways COVID poses a risk to all of us. This is why it’s important for everyone to take measures to protect themselves and others from COVID.
Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of "Friends" for you. Enjoy.
I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.
All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.
#crowdstrike
Node.js makes big TypeScript & SQLite moves, ECMAScript 2024 adds some niceties to the language (but not the ones you're probably excited for) & we review the State of React 2023 results. Emergency?! Nick!
For Patreon, Swag, past episodes, and more, visit https://cupogo.dev/!🫡 Leadership Transition in the Go Project🧑⚖️ ProposalsAccepted: Adding Text() to the crypto/rand libraryProposal (likely decline): add crypt(3) compatibility in the stdlibActive Proposal: Telemetry in Delve🤝 CommunityGopherCon...
Jamie Tanna
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